Chapter 30: The Golden City
Ryuji must not have known that he was being remembered, and at this time he had already followed the way he had come to the landing site they had planned at the beginning.
Compared to Perkin, who was in a hurry, Ryuji was not too anxious.
After resting well at the landing site, Ryuji followed the route he had chosen and entered the other side of the jungle.
Along the way, relying on the knowledge of jungle survival, Liu Zhi found many giant snakes on the way.
Among those giant snakes, there are forest snakes and anacondas, which are originally relatively large, and there are also poisonous snakes and grass snakes that should have been relatively small.
Ryuji could always tell their original identities from the appearance of these snakes, but the smallest of them were giant snakes with a bucket thickness of nearly fifty meters long, which made Ryuji lose all thoughts of contact with them.
In the face of these giant snakes, Liu Zhi only had one plan to keep making a detour.
In the middle of this stop-and-go, Ryuji stumbled upon a strange situation, as if the snakes were heading in the opposite direction to where they were going.
This discovery made Ryuji ponder, he found a safe place, took out the map and information and flipped through it, and kept drawing on the map the location of the giant snake he had encountered before.
As the serpents appeared, their positions and directions were drawn.
A new clue appears in front of Ryuji.
He found that there were more than eighty percent of the giant snakes, all of them rushing from the direction of the Golden City to the bloody tree.
"Could it be that this is the time for the giant snake to let off steam?"
An idea popped into Ryuji's mind, and if that's the case, then this is a great opportunity.
Thinking of this, Ryuji quickly stood up, and he counted the number of different types of giant snakes he had encountered during this time.
"That's right, this is also an opportunity for me, maybe these giant snakes themselves are guarding the existence of the Golden City, that Golden City belongs to Kukulkan, Kukulkan is the god of Quetzalcoatl, it is normal for snakes to have a huge and controlling effect, if there are no humans in the Golden City, then it is natural to leave the giant snake to guard the city.
If it had been in normal time, if it had been in normal time, it would have been necessary to face the challenge of the giant serpent if it wanted to enter the city, but now the giant serpent has left. β
While thinking, Liu Zhi stood up, he put all the materials into his backpack, and rushed towards the Golden City with his backpack.
Ryuji didn't know how long it would take for the serpent to return, but he couldn't afford to waste any more time on the road.
In order to get to the Golden City faster, Liu Zhi didn't even care about hiding his whereabouts this time, he even began to look for some snake paths that the giant snake had walked, and walked against the snake path, wanting to find the direction of the Golden City faster.
Ryuji's guess was correct, he walked for about two days and one night, and except for the necessary rest, the food on Ryuji's road was supported by the black, chocolate-like food in Perkin's backpack.
Ryuji finally found the existence of the Golden City before July 15.
It was behind a jungle cliff, and the entrance was not very large, and it could only be entered against a river.
On both sides of the river, Yanagi also saw many caves that had been dug out by hand.
These caves are supposed to be the dwellings of some giant snakes, and the entrance to the cave is not very large, so normal people can walk in, but after entering it, they will find that the cave extends in all directions, like overlapping pipes.
On the damp cave walls, you can still see many leftover bones and the skin of the giant snake on the ground.
Ryuji walked through several caves and found that the situation in each cave was similar, except that some caves had obvious traces of giant snakes living there, and some caves were empty of snakes.
This discovery made Ryuji feel a little lucky, fortunately he gave up Perkin's line in advance, if he followed Perkin, or was attracted by Perkin's notebook and missed this opportunity, then when he came to the Golden City, he would have to face a swarm of giant snakes that would come out when he heard a little noise.
Based on Ryuji's judgment of his current strength, the probability that he can defeat the giant snake group is almost zero.
Swimming up the river, after bypassing several underground channels, Ryuji's eyes lit up, and after pushing away a large amount of vegetation, an ancient Inca-style valley city was located.
Perhaps it has been untended for a long time, and because of the rainforest climate, the whole city is half-hidden in a large number of shrubs.
But it is clear that the city was initially populous, with at its peak at least 30,000 to 50,000 households living all year round.
The city is centered around an Incas-style pyramid nearly 50 meters high, surrounded by a large and empty square, which is divided into four distinct areas, each with a somewhat different architectural style.
For example, the building near the north is not the usual stone here, it should be wood with some leaves, and after so many years, most of the building materials have rotted, leaving only some residue.
The buildings on the east side are all carefully selected obsidian and volcanic rock, which are not only hard in texture, but also large in size, and have not caused any damage after so many years of wind and rain, but have been buried by various plants.
As for the south and west sides, the buildings are quite cluttered, and it can be seen that the living here is not too obviously planned.
"Is this the Golden City?"
Standing at the exit of the river, Liu Zhi looked at the city in front of him, his angle was not very good at this time, he was just in the downstream position, and it was already quite remarkable to be able to see the whole city clearly, if he wanted to see it in more detail, he might have to climb to the nearby mountains.
But Liu Zhi had no intention of climbing the mountain, and the fifty-meter-high pyramid in front of him was over there, which should be the key to the Golden City.
With this in mind, Ryuji drew the long sword he had received from the swordsman and prepared to head in the direction of the pyramid.
Just as he took a step forward, a gust of mountain wind blew, and in the valley, where the air was not too circulating, there was a wave of trees.
Ryuji noticed that a large phantom of a red feathered serpent appeared above the pyramid.
The phantom looked somewhat agile, and in the mountain wind, the phantom's eyes seemed to still scan the valley.
Ryuji couldn't help but stop, and then he touched the pendant that he had been keeping close to him, and walked forward again.
γDing! The Curse of the Golden City has been officially activated, and the Necromancer Induction Options are now open, so please find clues, materials, and resources within three days, and make the corresponding choices to complete the Necromancer Induction. γ